He concealed it from her; but if ever he heard me answer sharply, or saw any other servant grow cloudy at some
imperious order of hers, he would show his trouble by a frown of displeasure that never darkened on his own account.

Catherine had seasons of gloom and silence now and then; they were respected with sympathizing silence by her husband, who
ascribed them to an alteration in her constitution, produced by her perilous illness, as she was never subject to depression of spirits before.

Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's
exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon.

My heart invariably
cleaved to the master's, in preference to Catherine's side--with reason, I imagined, for he was kind, and trustful, and honourable; and she--she could not be called the opposite, yet she seemed to allow herself such wide latitude that I had little faith in her principles, and still less sympathy for her feelings.

To
obviate the fatigue of mounting and descending the stairs, we fitted up this, where you lie at present, on the same floor with the parlour; and she was soon strong enough to move from one to the other, leaning on Edgar's arm.

And then I remembered Mr. Edgar's stern rebuke of my carrying tales, and I tried to smooth away all disquietude on the subject by affirming, with frequent
iteration, that that betrayal of trust, if it merited so harsh an appellation, should be the last.

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